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A closer look at Worcester’s 2020 payroll: 90 of 100 top earners are police officers
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Members of the Worcester Police Department represented 90 of the city’s top 100 earners in 2020, according to payroll records.
City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. took home the highest paycheck, making a total of $279,770 in 2020, keeping on trend with payroll records from previous years. Police Chief Steven Sargent received the city’s second-largest salary, taking home $239,130, records indicate.
Aside from police officers, a handful of other employees are among the highest-paid workers, including the city’s assistant city manager, administrators at the Worcester Public Schools, the city solicitor and the late DPW head.
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WORCESTER In public meetings last year, Police Chief Steven M. Sargent insisted his department should not be lumped in with others across the country facing allegations of systemic racism in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
“I’ve said many times, we have not observed - in my 35 years, you know, racism within the department,” Sargent told Human Rights commissioners in September, echoing comments he made during a contentious back-and-forth with Board of Health officials a month earlier.
Sargent, appointed chief in 2016 after three decades in his hometown department, told officials he did not believe institutional racism or implicit bias existed in the Police Department in Worcester, the second-largest city in New England.